Calculator for chem 14A series, math 3 series, etc

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>I'm a neurosci major. My Ti 89 titanium broke and it's waay out of warrant, so i'm wondering do I need to buy a brand new ti 89 titanium or can I get by on something cheaper? Like a TI 84 or something?</p>

<p>On a side note, screw Texas instruments. I bought their calculator 4 years ago for 150 dollars, and IT HASN'T GONE DOWN IN PRICE AT ALL, even though the production cost for it should have dropped to 1/8 the price. Greedy bastards...grrr</p>

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<p>Most classes don’t allow calculators. If they do, they’re just scientific calculators.</p>

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Is that including Math 32A and higher?</p>

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<p>Can you clarify what you mean by “just scientific calculators”? That’s what the ti-89 titanium is, so if I “just need that”, I guess I have to drop another 150 dollars…:(</p>

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<p>TI-89 is a graphing calculator
Scientific calculators just do trig functions.</p>

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<p>lavelle banned graphing calculators during my quarter.</p>

<p>i personally think regular ti scientific calculators are garbage. you cant type fast on them…theyre too slow to process it. i use a casio scientific calculator.</p>

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<p>oh alright got it
my dad suggested a casio, so i think i’ll be getting that.</p>

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<p>I just ordered the Hewlett-Packard 50g graphing calculator on amazon. It’s awesome! It has RPN, more advanced equation-solving, as well as, they claim, a more sophisticated CAS. I don’t even know if my professors will allow it, but I think it was worth it, even just for my own studying. It’s $110, but it does far more than even the $180 V200 from TI.</p>

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<p>…and a 200 mhz CPU, though no one actually would every need that kind of speed for a calculator. Woohoo!! I would say that HP calculators are akin to Linux, and TI calculators are akin to Windows, though of course those are totally different topics.</p>

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<p>scerri’s chem class is also only scientific (no graphing capability allowed, although i don’t think you would need it for anything for chem :() i believe you can use whatever you want for physics but most of it only need simple functions, and math series you don’t need calculator at all and they don’t allow any, they make the arithmetic easy, if you are doing complex calculations you are probably doing it wrong :D</p>